Final Thoughts

Flickr account! final pictures added for the end of the semester: 
FINAL FLICKR


Wow! it's crazy to think that this is my final post. I hope that I am able to get a better grade on my "blog" section of the over all grades. 


When thinking about this class, I think about what Present-Alisha could tell September-Alisha about everything she'd learn. 
I know that I still struggle with harsh lines, but I feel like I have gained more knowledge about how the human form is proportioned. I know that I tend to elongate more of these parts but I felt like I am getting the practice to pay attention and notice when it's not needed. 


One of my favorite days that I didn't expect to be was going to the Bell Museum. I think that my drawing of the cow pelvis was probably one of my strongest piece that I drew out this semester. 


The last day of class, we did a really fun thing with K and our gesture drawings. She was putting clothes on to help her stay warm but it added such movement to the gesture drawings. It was a lot of fun, and I could tell we really had to work up to it because after learning about how to read where bones were under the skin, adding clothing made it a little more difficult. I think I have achieved a nice beginner lessons about how to go about drawing figures. I really want to just keep practicing and develop my own style of drawing people.


I have always had an appreciation for correctly drawn anatomy but, now after taking this class I truly know how difficult and how much focus is needed. 

long drawing of K 

K posing with her coat on and with her scarf wrapped around her foot. 30 Sec 

Blizzard Week!

I already posted something in class about our Hand's study from Tuesday. That day was pretty interesting, because I was drawing Julia's hands terribly. I have a picture of it so you can notice how scary it is. I will have to play around with someone else's hands and redraw it till I get it right. Im scared I wont have a lot of material to choose from. Annie and I talked about going to the open drawing this Tuesday. Im kind of excited to possibly get some more good works. I also find that I am more devoted to homework at night time. I focus better at night. 


On Thursday we learned about the Skull and it was a nice little intro that I'm sure continues into Life Drawing II. I like to look at my friend Missy Hoch's portraits and they are beautiful. I find that drawing realistically is extremely hard for me. I am learning how to draw forms but I tend to find myself putting my own weird twist on them. I think it's a mix up between this class, with beautifully accurate drawings and learning about more works from Modern Art History. All those figures are so expressive with the unique forms and different stylized artist eye. I makes me want to jump in and just start making weird figures also with arbitrary colors and fun curves. 


I am kind of bummed that I didnt get a chance this semester to study a male figure. I bet I'd probably blush a little more seeing a male figure. I am so used to K and her body, just like how I'm used to my shell. 


Anyways, I was having a lot of fun drawing and I noticed that Im finally starting to draw lighter and get darker. I'm also able to map out the shapes and figures more. Observing negative space helped me a lot with the skull.


Sadly in class I found myself going from focused, to just DONE. When Amy did come over and helped me she showed me still that my nose proportions were off by a lot. It was hard to come back from that. I just ended up adding some shading and called it done. 

IN CLASS

Currently I am in class. Julia and I were drawing each other's hands. Amy ran over to my drawing of Julia's hand and showed me very fast that I drew the hands of Death. They were so long and gross looking. Hahaha after watching Amy draw an outline I felt a little more confident about how to go about it from there on out. I really do need a lot more practice but luckily I can probably practice with my own hand. 


One thing that I like about our class is that we are getting comfortable with one another. I feel like we have been for a while so today was a nice and fun relaxed day to practice drawing. You could hear other chatter going on in the room, and Amy also put on some nice background music. 

The board of notes! Amy makes it look so easy. 

FIRST WEEK OF DEC

Oh wow, it's already December. The end of the semester is already here, and it's that time of the school semesters I wish that there were more hours in a day. 


Life drawing was a short week for me. For some reason I came down with a strange 24 hour common cold. I could not get out of bed on Tuesday and didn't really fight it. I think I needed the rest. Julia and Annie were in class though, and all they told me was that Amy had assigned TONS of muscles for us to do... ohh man. 


On Thursday I was feeling a lot better and we did some drawings.  It was a nice fun day because the class was really talkative and everyone seemed to be openly on the same page. Not drawing for a week really seemed to set everyone back! Gesture drawings seemed like they were a second. we were moving so fast. It hard for me to draw a rib cage in the short amount of time which was frustrating. We ended up moving to longer poses of K. We were suppose to draw a hour in a half of her pose. I was struggling so much that day I ended up drawing four twenty-five minute drawings of her. I even asked Amy to come over and help me. I was surprised to hear that yet again, my proportions weren't too far off. Of course I am still elongating parts of the body... I was positioned super weird and probably should have moved around more than just plopping down where I was. I was down low (because I was on a drawing horse) and the stool that she was resting her arm on was kind of in the way. I don't know why I didn't move but I guess I felt more confident and thought that I could have taken on that angle. 


Since the end of the semester is coming up, and I did not receive a great grade on my flicker portfolio, I think it would be beneficial for me, my grade and portfolio to go to open drawing on Tuesday night to hopefully gain more material to choose from. I hope I am able to make it there this week. 

For some reason I liked this gesture drawing

Elongated figure but it was fun to draw

Here in the left corner you can notice me kind of zoning out and doing my own little drawing. This is the one that Amy helped me proportion out. It was soon abandoned. 

Probably the more successful one of the day. I would hope so after drawing 4 or 5 of them. 

WEEK SOMETHING

This past week was nice because we all finally got break for Thanksgiving. To spend our one day in class we got to go take a field trip to the Walker and the Bell Museum. 


Things got off to a rough start with some minor miscommunication with the busses. Nonetheless we finally got rolling and went to the Walker first. I found it to be very inspiring for another class actually. I signed up for Sculpture II for next semester and some of the pieces there were just what I needed to see to help get my thoughts moving. Yves Klein's work were there and it was really beautiful to see in person! I had no idea that they were there, but he was an artist that really stuck out to me. 


Now, going to the Bell Museum was something that sounded really interesting to me. "Going to a museum to draw dead animals" is how I explained the field trip to my parents the night before. Once I got there it was really not as weird as it sounds. It was one of my favorite things I've done on a field trip here. It bummed me out I didnt live closer to go back and work on other subjects. I ended up drawing a pelvic bone of a cow. I personally think it is one of my better works, and reflects what I've learn, or maybe I should say it reflects my practice well. 

Drawing 

The Cow Pelvis bone

Me. Being so artsy.. 

He was posing. I didn't mind the turtles so much as the snakes.

Amy taking roll for the ride home! 

After the field trip I came home and packed like the world was ending to get home for break. It was such a busy day of Menom-to-cities. Cities-to-Menom....Menom-to-Eagan. 

But I did get a good drawing out of the day, I was inspired at the walker and I knew that my day wasn't wasted my any means. 

Wow, I can not forget that the final ink wash shell drawing is due. I think I might go grab stuff for that tomorrow at Penco and start. Hopefully for all of us the we can keep our heads a float, and enjoy the time we have to create a beautiful final shell drawing. 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows!!

I thought that Amy would like to see me getting ready to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows! She always seems to appreciate my side comments about it the boy who lived during class! 


"I HAVE SEEN YOUR HEART HARRY AND IT IS MINE!" 

INDIA INK

Hello to all! 
I would like to say that this week with life drawing has been a good one. It didn't hurt that class was canceled on Tuesday. I was prepared for class, because Annie, Julia and I worked on the muscles together again. I think that out of all the clay muscles assignments, this one was one of the better ones, I liked the way things turned out with lower leg muscles. I'll have to take pictures of that, but I left the mannequin in the locker in APPA. 




Announcement: I AM IN LOVE WITH INDIA INK! I went out and decided to go buy more because I have fallen in love. I can not wait to play around with the shell that is due on the 2nd, and see how my final picture will look. I have always loved painting and drawing it was was just a breath of fresh-artistic-inspiring air to be able to do both in the same project. I found myself doing mini studies of the shell on my own time later that evening, and playing around with ink and water. 


I forgot to bring my Shell to class so the pictures I post are of a leg bone with a socket I suspect.  I chose to buy brick red, and it is a very beautiful ink wash, however, drawing a bone.. made it look like I just ripped it out of someones leg. very morbid and  graphic..  haha 

Here is my close up cross contour study of the bone I found in class. 

my bloody bone! creepy but fun!

Annie Julia and I sprinting to the Terrace for a fast lunch break! 

My lovely art supporters working hard!